About half of Cardano’s (ADA) nodes went offline for a short time this weekend because of an “anomaly.” Still, the network quickly got back up and running, according to Input Output Global, the company that makes Cardano (IOG).
IOG says in a Telegram message that the problem only briefly slowed down block production.
“This appears to have been triggered by a transient anomaly causing one of two reactions in the node; some disconnected from a peer, and others threw an exception and restarted. Such transient issues (even if they were to affect all nodes) were considered in the design of the Cardano-node and consensus. The systems behaved exactly as expected.
Block production was only briefly impacted, with a portion of the network falling out of sync for approximately https://cardanoscan.io/block/8300569 before nodes restarted. Therefore, the impact was low – akin to the delays that occur during normal operations and often seen at epoch boundaries. Most nodes automatically recovered.”
The head of the Cardano stake pool Digital Fortress, Rick McCracken, says that most affected nodes recovered “immediately” or “automatically.”
“Last night, during the anomaly on the Cardano network, the entire network did not go down. There was a brief period of degradation. Most nodes impacted had gracefully recovered. No network restart was required.”
Tom Stokes, who runs a stake pool for Cardano, praised the network’s response as proof of “why decentralization matters.”
On GitHub, people talked about how to explain what happened in more detail.
Cardano’s native token, ADA, doesn’t seem to be affected by the news. At the time of writing, it was trading for about $0.378—a slight increase for the day.
